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Tuesday, December 15, 2009

LGBT leader assassinated in Honduras

According to reporter Doug Ireland, Walther Trochez, a 25 year old Honduran LGBT activist, was shot to death on Sunday evening. He had already been arrested and beaten because of his sexual orientation, and had dedicated much of his time documenting government killings and other crimes against LGBT people. According to Ireland, Trochez had been trailed for weeks by the killers who are thought to have been part of the Honduran security forces.

Trochez had recently penned an pen letter citing numerous killings of LGBT people in Honduras. He wrote that over the past four months, "nine transexual and gay friends were violently killed, six in San Pedro Sula and three in Tegucigalpa." He closed the letter saying that "as a revolutionary, I will always defend my people, even if it takes my life." This proved all too prescient.

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I hope you'll visit often and post comments. My book of short stories, "if you were with me everything would be all right," won the Violet Quill Award for Best Gay Fiction of the Year and was named one of the "twenty books of note" by the "Lambda Literary Review." It was also translated into Italian. My stories have been published in over 20 literary magazines and I've read my work on "On Point," a program on National Public Radio.

I'm a former middle school teacher who lives in Boston and in Toronto with my partner and two basset hounds. My memoir, "A Passionate Engagement," is forthcoming in October, 2010.